What's better, max dodge or max tank? 🤔

If you replace the beetle shell with the shinobi infiltrator torso, you have a pretty balanced late hardmode melee setup which gives you 35% crit, 10% melee damage, 30% melee speed and 74 defense.

The thing i like about you is that even after 500 hours in terraria i still see new things here , this one isn't so new i saw a few times before. Keep the good work brotha

Vital Crystal and Aegis Fruit from shimmering Life Crystal and Life Fruit respectively. Vital Crystal ups your base regen and Aegis Fruit gives you a permanent +4 Defense.

There's also max damage setups that can shred ML faster than he can kill you, but for general survivability, nothing beats just being too tanky to die.

Been following your content for a little while now, and I have to say I love how much it has evolved, you've become more energetic and louder in your videos without losing the formal and informative tone they aspire while keeping a very well edited and concise style, giving exactly what the viewer hopes to see when clicking on the video, while never dragging on. Heck, even when you're not talking about the meat of the video, such as when you're mentioning how long it personally took you to get an item to drop, the constant pace of your speech and the relateability in not getting the item you want to drop never had me skipping ahead.

I love mixed armour sets, they really spice up a playthrough and are honestly better than normal sets... usually lol

Tanking funni

3:50 Empress of Light daytime: Well.... Ur dead

"if it can tank the moonlord it can tank anything else" daytime empress of light: 🗿

I absolutely like your content. Actual useful tips and really consistent.

Need more unique gear setup videos like this. Doesn't have to be an OP build but just show off some neat gear combos. Atleast one on best bee setups please. Keep up the great work. Loving these videos!

Man, i've followed you for a few months and i can clearly see all the evolution and improvement that your content has gone through time. I really love your content and some of your reviews had me want to use some weapons that normally their existence would have been unknown for me (like the Sky fracture or the Spirit flame). Now i'm doing a mage playthrough and for sure i'm gonna use some of those weapons. Greetings from Spain ❤️ (Sorry if my spelling was bad, I'm still learning English)

Now this was epic. sockrteez u r maximizing the potential of this game and I love every bit of it

I would realy enjoy more videos like this You reccomending setups, and combos!

"If it can tank moonlord, it can tank anything else" Day time EoL: Did someone call for me?

Thanks for making this video, it worked Incredibly well!

Its great to see another Tank setup from you, this pleases the facetanker :D Have you ever thought about making a Video on the Strange Brew? I beat GFB with the power of Strange Brew + Charm of Myths

Sockrteez trying to figure out his next video: "Hmm, I suppose I could maybe find another item- DANG IT I DIED AGAIN! I'm never gonna beat the Moon Lord at this point. Alright, how much defense can I get!? I'm gonna roleplay as the Dungeon Guardian"

You don't know how much you've just helped me i think with this armour set-up i will just reforge my already existing accessories to have more defense

This is essentially what I built when Journey's End came out (in Master mode, only difference is that I just used all Beetle armor pre-Moon Lord). It was very funny shrugging off everything Moon Lord would think of throwing at me... outside of the big laser, that I still needed to avoid. My friend (who was doing a mage DPS build), wasn't so happy with the revelation of how much more effective my build was at bossing.

"if it can tank Moon Lord, it can tank anything else" Daytime Empress and Dungeon Guardian give you a look and hard-press 'x' to doubt

I honistly had a bit of doubt about this utill I tryed it and oh man thank you for making this video becouse i would have never complete the game without it 😁

I know im a bit late, but could you maybe make a video on how to build the box and the other „arena box stuff“? I could not find a video on what needs to be where and where i get everything. But the rest of the video was great. Keep up the great work!

I just wanted to say, your thumbnail design is GEORGOUS!

I had to use a somewhat different build which is a tank mixed with a dodge build technically which helped me beat the moon lord on legendary difficulty! It requires all the accessories you previously mentioned, but i believe I replaced the flesh knuckles with a cross necklace, and the armor was just a full set of turtle, only issue being it’s thorn capabilities, but we had spawn statues of eater of souls and they would not die too often from the armor and if one DID, it would instantly be replaced. They should deal 1 damage to the player and grant them infinite I-frames if done right, just make sure to have the inferno brand or captain America shield or whatever the name is. For a solid like 20 more defense. And grapple to the ground, use the shield ability of your weapon, and have a couple heart statues with the campfire and honey, and heart lantern box. This DOES require to be on multiplayer but it is sooooooo good, just make sure the other player dealing damage to moon lord doesn’t have any aggro grabbing gear on otherwise moon lord will shift his focus off the tank. The only way you’d die doing this is if you’re so incredibly unlucky that the souls don’t hit you fast enough, but if for some reason the turtle armor doesn’t work out, just replace it with beetle.

Prehaps an i-frame extention like the cross necklace could be better than the berserker's glove in the long run?

sockrteez: this setup can tank any boss in the game wof and deol: are we a joke to you

I think Terraria perfectly hits the intersection between powerful setups and restraint. Like, in some games you can try and get literally every single damage-modifying perk; and it'll literally just be like a +15% increase overall, from everything. But you wouldn't want buffs to be way too powerful cuz then the game is way too class-dependent. I think that's one of the main reasons people like Terraria and its progression so much.

Wait was that a reference to the Nero Shadows of Evil quote at 0:36? If so nice haha

i just realized you where more than 100 k, so congrats!

We need longer videos mate!

I swear to god when I was doing my master mode play through I was trying to find the best setup I could get and this is the one I ended up with, I found it out by myself. It’s pretty cool to see someone spreading the word about it tho, because in my opinion it’s the best armor to fight ML in (for melee)

Thank you i finally beat moon lord but i used berserkera glove, frozen sheild, celestial shell, worm scarf, and the fire gauntlet with the armer you recomended thank you(normal mode)

He’s got us covered again

Yippie time to tank moon lord

Did not expect to see a drifting tank today

Id recommend adding some kind of afk movement, be it minecart rails, hoiks, or teleporters. A well set up arena with this completely removes the need for a specialized build, and often allows for weapons that cant hit through blocks. In fact, basically all modded bosses (that are meant to be beaten) can be cheesed this way, though it often comes down to ludicrous world spanning highly complicated minecart rails. However, It looks like you are more interested in minimal arena setup, in which case I recommend the Star Veil, which extends the duration of i-frames and also deals damage when hit, paired with standing in lava. The result of this is essentially an 70% chance brain of confusion, at the cost of almost all standard health regen. This will require reasonably high defense, to reduce the contact damage of lava, but not as much as you use in this video. Alternatively, if you are willing to equip bandage/ankh shield to negate the bleeding, spikes allow you to proc i-frames significantly faster, allowing even better odds of avoiding damage. Hope this helps!

btw, the full defense of the mixed armor set is 80, while the beetle armor provides 75, but the beetle armor's set bonus gives you damage resistance, of course said bonus wont help much if you are constantly hit.

Moonlord & wof: "No YoU CaNt Do THaT iM a bIG sCary fInAL boSS Player: cheese go burr

2 things use SHIMMER to upgrade life fruits and life crystals for extra regen and defense second thing (idk if this one is better) you can use the gem that golem drops since is easy to use and gives you a lot of health,but you will have to use a summon weapon and dont attack but i think you can afk with this strat

If you're reading this Sockrteez, could you make a video on the Thunder Zapper? Its a pre boss magic weapon that's found in the underground desert and despite being super easy to obtain I found it to be quite powerful, especially when paired with jungle armor.

"I'm invincible.. I can't be vinced!" - Nero, shadows of evil

Reminds of me back then a year ago when I was really into payday 2 and, I would watch a load ton of payday 2 build videos for death sentence one down

It's been a while since I did it, but it's possible to facetank Master Mode Moon Lord with a different setup. Full Turtle armor, Shiny Stone, Frozen Shield, Star Veil, Worm Scarf, Brain of Confusion, Master Ninja Gear, and Charm of Myths. Weapon of choice is Stardust Dragon/Cell Staff, and either the Sergeant United Shield or the Brand of the Inferno. Arena has the usual campfire, Bast, and heart lantern, a small honey pool to stay in, and the Dryad to provide her buff along with the Nurse to keep her alive. Build a small box around you to reduce on the projectiles. Summon your Stardust minion of choice, buff up, and hold right click. It's pretty much just healing and buffing when necessary as you let your minion do all the work.

Love the Shaodows of evil reference, if that's where you got it?

Max Dodge go burrrr

Damn son this is crazy daytime

3:50: Daytime empress of light and dungeon guardian: "Am I a joke to you"

Swap the Palladin's Shield out for the Celestial Shell for an additional defense point boost (and all the other perks of the item)

"if you can tank the moonlord, you can tank anything else" DG and EOL:

Was that a black ops 3 shadows of evil reference

Finally, daytime empress here I come!

Have you made a video on all the obscure things you can shimmer?

That bo3 Nero reference

can you make a video on how to make your box to fight the bosses, many would like to see how you made it :)

One time I was trying to get the frozen turtle shell and it took me two hours. I got a bunch of other things that had very low drop rates during this and I was about to give up when I finally got it.

I’ll finally be Able to farm the duke. I hate fighting him but he gives such good loot

''lettuce'' begin hahaha 0:39

It seems you have taken quite the liking in the flying dragon sword

There needs to be upgrades to expert mode boss drops like the worm scarf

The Player says to the Moonlord: "Didn't you know beetles are famous for there high defense?"

It might me also good to have some king slime summons. It will teleport to you a deliver free hearths

"I'M INVINCIBLE, I CAN'T BE VINCED" 😂

Those accessories are basically my entire setup and i have like all with warding.

sockrteez is leterally the best weapon reviewer

"IM FUCKIN' INVINCIBLE" -Sundowner

could you do a review on the marrow please

Autocaptions here are AMAZING

Me: I finally found it, Now who's gonna STOP MEEEE!!! Daytime Empress of Light: Allow me to introduce myself.

Did you used the motus aspect from thaumcraft as the dodge icon at the start of the video?

pretty good, what were the other items that you didnt bother including however? im curious

I also recommend the Sergeant Shield since it can increase your defense in 20 I'm not sure about that old one's army sword that does the same thing Idk if it increases the same amount or even more But including the perfect parry to negate the damage entirely

Now even a rock on my keyboard can beat moonlord!

I still can't debate which accessory i should replace for the wings, soaring insignia, celestial shell and terrasparks.

How do you make your farms? I would love a tutorial!

max dmg red. is 73% So running beetle armor with a worm scarf, with an endurance potion it will already give you 72% dmg reduction. The other item slots you can now use for dmg but if you want to go all out defensively you can run a pretty good i-frames/dodge build which is clearly op by itself

if u get a 2 demon hearts then u can get terraspark boots and obsidian shield which removes knock back

I am way too lazy to do this, but still a cool strategy.

at about 3:10 could you elaborate on the setup you got there? I'm rahter new to the game so I have little clue on what is going on with the electrical stuff

KZfaq didn't tell me about this, maybe check up with that.😊

I would recommend wood armor as it has the lowest defense which make the moonlord have mercy on you

bro got the triple decker shield

now THIS is how I like to play the game!!!!

Don’t forget to put warding reforge on all the accessories, but other than that this is the most defensive armor set I have ever seen!

Could this strategy work with a Horseman's Blade...? (with the "Legendary" prefix, preferably)

sockrteez what resource pack are you using for background?

You don't have to make a new world if you have the crimson, you can buy corrupt seeds from the dryad while in a graveyard biome.

This setup of armor does tank the moonlord just go in more prepared with potions and buffs to avoid death if you worry about taking too many hits. This armor is great to use against the moon

They normally say the best defence is a good offence Bro the best defence is a better defence

Make a video about the inferno staff

I failed to dodge any of the death rays but still won easily small note: if you're doing classic and don't have enough slots for all 6 items, leave off the flesh knuckles

Tankyness without Regeneration is useless

"It can even tank daytime empress!"

3:50 Dungeon Guardians be like : "you lucky skeletron's dead!"

Now make it tank Master Mode Destroyer.

Instructions unclear, severe case of unluckyness

Daytime Empress

morning empress of light be like, "Pathetic"

WTF i just knew!!!! Your name came from the PHILOSOPHER "SOCRATES"